IIS Database Manager

Monday, June 8, 2009

Back in March we released the RC of IIS Database Manager – a tool which allows you to manage databases remotely through the IIS remote management infrastructure. The tool will automatically pick up database connection strings from your web.config file and make them available to you in the UI – you can also create ad-hoc connections too.

Over the next few days I’ll be posting overview of how to use some of the features of Database Manager and going into details of how it works where appropriate. In the meantime – if you have any ideas or suggestions for Database Manager feel free to post here – given that we already released the RC I can’t promise that they will make it into the release of this version but we’ll definitely take all suggestions and requests into account for future releases.

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I was wondering if the IIS logging can point to the database other than to the log files at C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles.

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I'm a Software Design Engineer on the IIS team based in Microsoft headquarters, Redmond, WA. I used to be a Program Manager on the IIS team when we were making IIS7 - back then I owned UI, Configuration, API stacks and a few other bits and pieces. I'm Irish. This blog will mainly cover such wonderful things as the new the IIS configuration system, extending IIS 7 and just general ramblings about IIS and how to get the most out of it. If you have any comments feel free to post them.